{"id":589566,"date":"2026-05-17T21:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:53:38","slug":"major-update-provided-on-conor-benns-next-fight-were-targeting-him-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589566\/","title":{"rendered":"Major update provided on Conor Benn’s next fight: “We\u2019re targeting him right now”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a>\u2019s manager has provided an update on the Ryan Garcia situation, admitting there is a possibility of negotiations \u201cfalling apart\u201d in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Talks for their potential encounter have seemingly made steady progress, with the pair expected to collide for Garcia\u2019s WBC world welterweight title later this year.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old claimed his belt in February, dethroning Mario Barrios with a wide unanimous decision victory<\/a> after flooring his man in the opening round.<\/p>\n

This was his first win since 2023, with the American\u2019s previous two outings resulting in a points defeat to Rolando Romero and a no-contest against Devin Haney.<\/p>\n

Between those two fights, Garcia completed a year-long ban after testing positive for banned substance ostarine, which scuppered the credibility of his performance against Haney.<\/p>\n

Benn, too, has previously tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance \u2013 specifically the clomifene variety \u2013 but has nonetheless become the WBC\u2019s leading contender at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

Having not made the weight since 2022, the 29-year-old is coming off a 10-round points victory over the since-retired Regis Prograis<\/a>, who he fought at a catchweight of 150lbs on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Arslanbek Makhmudov last month.<\/p>\n

Since then, Benn has doubled down on his desire to face Garcia, while manager Keith Connolly tells Boxing News that there is essentially a 50\/50 chance that the fight happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of negotiating [Garcia-Benn], along with some other big fights. I could see it happening; I could see it falling apart \u2013 but we\u2019re targeting that fight right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a great fight for both guys. It\u2019ll be a massive fight if it\u2019s over here [in the UK] and it\u2019ll be a massive fight it it\u2019s in [Las] Vegas. It\u2019s a sell-out wherever it goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ll know in the next couple of weeks where we\u2019re headed, but that\u2019s definitely the fight that we want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn\u2019s victory over Prograis followed his middleweight triumph over Chris Eubank Jr in November, when \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 exacted his revenge after losing their first encounter by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn\u2019s manager has provided an update on the Ryan Garcia situation, admitting there is a possibility of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}